Thread: Climbing or No?
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Re: Climbing or No?

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Originally Posted by Fields View Post
Any rookie team out there.

I would focus 100% on figuring out how to climb. Then delivering gears.

I put it in that order because as long as the rule does not change limiting the pilot on lifting a gear from a robot, you basically just need a good mail slot with no moving parts.

You can have a robot finished in the first half of the build season then spend the second half trying to figure out how to drive (More rounds are lost to bad drivers than you can imagine!!!) <--- I can not make the parentheses statement bold enough to get that across.

You can play with a fuel scooper/thrower if you want, but this should be absolutely last priority since it introduces a lot more parts to break/go wrong and veteran teams can smoke this task for you.
This is very good advice. As a rookie team, go for simplicity. If you can climb and play defense, you can easily win a regional or district event as a 3rd pick.
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